For true guardianship of our rivers, coasts, waters and air.

Working hand-in-hand with our community for the good of all.

 

VOTE FOR ACTION

• Let's clean up our rivers now!!
• If everyone who cares, votes, we can do it!

Vote JOAN ROPIHAFOR HAWKES BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL

Top 5 Issues

1. Restore our Waterways
   For swimming, fishing, white-baiting, recreation, kaimoana, indigenous flora and fauna
   Practical environmental restoration work
2. Responsible With Your Rates Money
   Supporting you, the community, not against you
   Set targets with well defined outcomes and time-lines
   Effective monitoring of our progress
   Effective enforcement
3. Listen to the community
   Trusting our local and traditional knowledge about our waterways and the environment

Personal Profile

I WAS, I AM

My whakapapa roots are Wairoa as was my primary education. This is the best place in the World to raise my daughter.

I am totally devoted to the Wairoa District, helping our community to achieve successful outcomes in the resource consent process. I am a shareholder in several local Māori land blocks. and have been a trustee for my iwi organisation, two Māori Land Trusts and involved in organising the Gifted Sands exhibition.

I have a Master of Arts in Māori Studies, and a Master in Environmental Studies. I spent 12 years working on culture, heritage, environment and resource management policy in both central and local government. Over the last five years I have taught business and iwi approaches to environmental sustainability.